Water Quality & Health Council: Joan B. Rose

Chair, Water Research
Michigan State University
Dr. Joan Rose serves as the Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at Michigan State University, the Co-Director of the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA) and Co-Director of the Center for Water Sciences (CWS). She is an international expert in water microbiology, water quality and public health safety publishing more than 300 manuscripts.  She has been involved in the investigation of numerous waterborne outbreaks world-wide. She won the Clarke Water Prize in 2001 (one of 5 international awards for contributions to water science and technology)  and in 2008 Dr. Rose won the first  Hei-jin Woo Award for Achievements of Women in the Water Profession, from Intern. Water Assoc. (IWA).  Her work addresses the use of new molecular tools for surveying and mapping water pollution for recreational and drinking water; assessment of innovative water treatment technology for the developed and developing world and use of quantitative microbial risk assessment.